Life In Montgomery
Read the following documents: Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, 1954 (Links to an external site.) Rosa Parks on Life in Montgomery (Links to an external site.) Fannie Lou Hamer’s Testimony (note: this is somewhat graphic) (Links to an external site.) Malcolm X, The Ballot or the Bullet, 1964 (Links to an external site.) What was the most significant goal of the Civil Rights Movement? Was that goal accomplished? Why or why not? Read Jimmy Carter’s “Malaise” Speech (Links to an external site.) . What was Carter’s intention when he gave it (in other words, what do you think he hoped to achieve with it)? What historical issues could have contributed to his desire to give this speech? Was it a good and/or effective argument? Why or why not? How might you have handled the issues he and the nation faced? (Would you have felt it appropriate to give this speech?) Read First Inaugural Address of Ronald Reagan. (Links to an external site.) How does what Reagan says here compare to Carter’s speech in the last reading? Is there a different tone to it? How do Reagan’s words here compare to what you learned about the Reagan Administration in Chapter 29? Where did he stand politically, and how did he implement it? What is your evaluation of the 1980s compared to prior eras?
